Re: Developer 2000 in multi-platforms environment
Date: 1997/03/06
Message-ID: <331ED1EF.7CD1_at_uswesst.com>#1/1
Maoz Mussel wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to hear your opinion about designing with Developer 2000
> for multi-platforms environment (windows and non-windows machines).
>
> Thanks in advanced,
> Maoz
>
> mmussel_at_iil.intel.com
In my experience, you can successfully port your Developer/2000
applications ( I've only tried Forms, Menus and Reports - no Graphics)
to multiple environments, but you have to accomodate for the differences
in GUIs. My approach ( on Windows and Macintosh, a little Unix-Motif,
and eventually Web-Forms ) is to try to define the
least-common-denominator GUI, and design to that.
For example, on Macs, non-icon buttons must be significantly larger than
their Windows counterparts in order to display the label text. This
makes the Windows forms look a little worse than I would like, but I
have achieved portability.
The good news, is that once you've dealt with the GUI problem, you only
need one set of source code ( FMBs ), assuming you have access to common
disk drives from both environments. You also have to deal with the fact
that there are some things like OLE and MDI window functions that you
only have in the Windows environment.
Good Luck!
-- Howard Gluckman Data Architect U S WEST Communications hgluckm_at_uswest.com Any opinions are personal, and do not represent U S WEST Communications.Received on Thu Mar 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CET